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The day’s top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.
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EU condemns Israel’s Rafah evacuation orders
Israel is planning an assault on Hamas fighters in Rafah and orders tens of thousands more Palestinians to leave. Also: Switzerland wins the Eurovision Song Contest while Israel came fifth, and mass demonstrations in Georgia over a controversial proposed law.
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The Happy Pod: From pollution to paradise
The volunteers restoring the beautiful beaches of Bali and beyond by clearing plastic pollution from Indonesia's rivers, and upcycling it into chairs. The profits are used to fund more river clean ups.
The deaf toddler who has near normal hearing after groundbreaking gene therapy.
Why are hundreds of sea lions gathering at Pier 39 in San Francisco?
After seagull boy, we bring you lion girl - the five year old whose amazing lion roar has been viewed millions of times.
We chat to two old friends who reconnected -- and then studied why old friends find it hard to reconnect.
And we meet the football fan who moved to a new country to support his team in the English Premier League.
Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. -
UN assembly urges Palestine membership after vote
The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine's rights within the organisation and called for it to be accepted as a member. Also: India court grants bail to jailed opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal, and how important is it to read the small print?
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Ukraine war: Russia launches 'surprise' attack
President Zelenskyy says a fierce battle is underway and people are being evacuated in the Kharkiv region. Also: tensions grow between the US and Israel over the war in Gaza and Israel's offensive on Rafah, the BBC tracks down one of Europe's biggest people smugglers, and is there a future for the African penguin?
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Netanyahu defiant after US threat to stop weapons
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will "stand alone" and "fight with its fingernails", after the US warned it could halt arms shipments if Israel ordered a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza. Also: Israel heads to Eurovision final despite protests; and the tech company Apple faces a backlash over the destruction of musical instruments and books in an iPad advert.
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Genocide warning in Darfur
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan are facing allegations of war crimes and genocide in West Darfur. The New York-based Human Rights Watch says the leaders of the RSF and its Arab allies should be sanctioned for deliberately targeting non-Arab communities. It says the international community has failed to respond to the scale of the crisis in Sudan. Also: Saudi Arabia is accused of using lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city, why Russia is opening an embassy in Sierra Leone - after more than three decades, Japan announces expansion of whale hunting, a supplier to the aircraft manufacturer Boeing says major parts left its factory with serious defects, and a trial to send a former Paralympian into orbit.
Customer Reviews
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The objectivity, journalistic standards and presentation are wonderful as long as they don’t concern any mainstream political subjects of United Kingdom.
While there is a pretence of left leaning, empathetic to poor and suffering, there is never really a craving for objectivity in matters of wealth and poverty, exploitation of the poor and poor nations, geo-political interests bordering on a hunger to devour!
The reporting appears ludicrous whenever it begins to speak about China, Russia, Putin, xi jinping, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afganistan, wiki leaks, Asange, Snowden and so on subjects, the tone and content is not very different from the expression of sychophants in Banana Republics!
But that may be what most pro- establishment Brits think, feel and know as laws of nature and the world created by God!
Yet, BBC is helpful as reporting agency, when the topics are not within their core interests, or about which they can never be objective, like espousing the right keep the gold from dying starving Venezuelans, and queuing up to hand it over to a despicable CIA mercenary like Juan Guaido, sounding how an outlaw is Maduro Government ruling Venezuela, and recognised by a hundred and fifty countries but not recognised by USA and it’s Cohorts!
Real objectivity shows when it is about yourself!
God bless BBC!
It is an useful player!
BBC’s view on India has to change.
BBC should share good news from India as they did not share any negative news from uK & europe. Everyone around glob know all is not good in europe / us /uk.
Sumaia’s review
It’s extremely biased to Israel and India .true event always hide from the people.shame on you bbc news